But along with the bountiful increase in our harvest of crops. we in the Congress must see to it that there will be a drastic decrease in our "harvest of shame." I am referring. Mr. Speaker. to the earnest hope that in this session of the Congress. we will lend a more beneficient ear to the cries from the throats of our anonymous migrant farm laborers. This shame that plagues us should no longer be. Our conscience and our sense of decency can no longer endure the illiteracy. the filth. the sickness. the proverty. and the exploitation of well over half a million of our people toiling in the fields and orchards of this Nation. I am pleased to report that we have begun. and the very commendable efforts of at least two of our colleagues cannot go unmentioned. The very capable gentleman from New York. chairman of the House Subcommittee on Labor and the junior Senator from New Jersey have undertaken the task of presenting multipurpose legislation to aid migrant workers and their children. With their able guidance. we can. I feel. fulfill our responsibility to an almost forgotten segment of our citizenry. In this connection. Mr. Speaker. the Portland Oregonian has presented an interesting series of articles on life of the migrant laborer in my own State of Oregon. The series was written by Mr. Joe Bianco. the Oregonians agricultural editor. who went out to eastern Oregon and worked as a migrant laborer in order to get material for the series. I commend this series to my colleagues and would like. at this point in the RECORD. to introduce excerpts from the articles: